The Duchess of Science

Podcast for people from underrepresented groups in STEM, we want to promote #DiversityandInclusion by helping you navigate your way through academia
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[The Duchess of Science @broad_science]

#sciencetwitter please do your thing🙏🏽

This work was created for all the scientists and medics who worked on the response to #SARSCoV2.

Made from images taken from @newscientist, you can see more from hp_heinz on IG

#COVID19 #WomenInSTEM #WomenInScience #VaccinesWork

[The Duchess of Science @broad_science]

@BarclaysUKHelp Thanks so much Ramona for this information I already have, now please just give it up. You work for the most ridiculously evil bank and they ruin people’s lives. I admire your effort but you cannot fix everything they have messed up with these inane replies

[The Duchess of Science @broad_science]

@BarclaysUKHelp What for? I already made a formal complaint that you violated GDPR on my account and got the brush off. There is nothing be done, it’s just that you are the absolute worst and I will spend the rest of my days telling your potential customers as much

[NHS Million @NHSMillion]

We’ll always support NHS staff who fight against unfair working conditions

Please RT if you will too

Fair pay will help improve staff retention, increase the workforce size and boost morale

Or in other words, benefit every single person who uses, or may need to use, the NHS

[Prof. Anjali Goswami FRS @anjgoswami]

JOB ALERT! We are hiring a 2-yr #MachineLearning #ComputerVision PDRA @NHM_London & @LSBU_ENG for our @LeverhulmeTrust project on the evolution of cranial sutures through the synapsid-mammal transition, working with @heather_e_white @AlanaCSharp & more! https://t.co/UChfbKZyhq

[Susie Dent @susie_dent]

Word of the day is ‘battologist’ (17th century): an individual who repeats the same story over and over, even when all the facts contradict them.

[David K Smith @professor_dave]

Having seen this do incredible numbers, I also want to share 3 examples of best practice to point out that it really doesn't have to be like this.
1. University of Liverpool - who cared about #LGBTinSTEM before anybody else and hosted an amazing event - the first I ever gave.

[David K Smith @professor_dave]

A story. Once upon a time I got invited to do a lecture on LGBT+ representation in STEM at a very prestigious university. I travelled across the country and arrived, as planned, an hour before my lecture. My host was busy so I was shuffled off to the Deputy Director of Teaching.

[Cornelius Taabazuing @taabaman]

My lab is looking for a hard working and creative technician interested in understanding mechanisms of cell death. Please share. intereshttps://wd1.myworkdaysite.com/en-US/recruiting/upenn/careers-at-penn/job/Stellar-Chance-F9/Research-Specialist-A_JR00048145-1

[Leah Namugerwa @Leahinitiative]

The planet is very sick . I call everyone to add your voice in this call of saving nature

[Isaac Ssentumbwe @IBoggere]

Climate change is a women's issue.@Riseupmovt

[The Nobel Prize @NobelPrize]

Words of wisdom from pioneering neurologist Rita Levi-Montalcini.

Levi-Montalcini was 103 years old when she passed away in 2012 - the longest-living Nobel Prize laureate ever.

This clip is from an interview when she was 99 years old: https://t.co/HTg0pwV3gb

#IWD2022

[Stephanie Hegarty BBC News @stephhegarty]

A Nigerian medical student at Poland/Ukraine border (Medyka-Shehyni) told me she has been waiting 7hrs to cross, she says border guards are stopping black people and sending them to the back of the queue, saying they have to let 'Ukrainians' through first.

[Pröf-like Substance @ProfLikeSubst]

Is academia the only job where people are hired for the science they do, then we don't let them do that any more but give them a completely different job with no training or support?

[Amelia Horgan @AmeliaHorgan]

this decade-long experiment in creating a market for students has been a disaster for education. working conditions unliveable. universities' global reputations decline

aiming for bums on seats and fees in coffers above all else has caused immense and entirely predictable harms

[prof jenny pickerill @JennyPickerill]

Just to clarify for academics not in the UK. It is not just that our pensions have been unreasonably + unjustifiably slashed, it is that this has happened on top of:
1. increased casualisation + precarity
2. increasing workloads
3. leaving staff not being replaced
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[WomenEd 10%Braver #DisruptiveWomen @WomenEd]

What can male allies do to support women colleagues?

Please tell us the topics the #WomenEd community want our #HeForShe’s to cover in this celebration of #IWD2022 which will help to #BreakTheBias. And please keep prompting your male colleagues to attend!
https://t.co/4FNUqCvVHe

[Jorts (and Jean) @JortsTheCat]

Jean says even when she was very little she knew she was fierce. We ALL need to grow up safely, so we can be exactly who we’re meant to be. Protect trans youth ❤️🏳️‍⚧️

[Dr. Dakotah Tyler @DrStarkid_]

all-time favorite person in space lore: Katherine Johnson - a literal calculator, contributing to putting the first US astronaut in space. all in the crushing social climate of the 60s. untold for nearly half a century, her story is one of the most iconic in science history 👑